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He went to Lake Circus Girls High School Centre in Kalabagan to cast his vote at 9:50 am on Saturday but he could not cast vote despite several efforts for over 30 minutes.
The ballot unit could not be opened using his fingerprint as it didn’t match the information stored in the voter server.
Later, his name was found in the voter list. So, the AL candidate came out from the polling station without casting his vote.
An EC official said Shafiul Alam was registered as voter in the city’s Uttara area. Few days before the announcement of the election schedule he applied for shifting his voting address.
“But the voter list of each polling station was finalised earlier. So, his name might have not incorporated in the list,” the official said.
Amid the fear of novel coronavirus infection, by-elections to three parliamentary constituencies -– Dhaka-10, Gaibandha-3 and Bagerhat-4 –- are underway today.